- Collection:
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Title:
- Twiggs County Courthouse
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Contributor to Resource:
- Golucke, J. W.
- Date of Original:
- 1902/1904
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Twiggs County
Courthouses--Georgia--Jeffersonville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Twiggs County, Jeffersonville, 32.68765, -83.34656
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Architecture Style: Romanesque Revival
Courthouse Details: In an act of Dec. 8, 1810, the legislature named John Harden, Jacob Ricks, William Davis, Lovet B. Smith and James McCormick as courthouse and jail commissioners and authorized them to purchase between 75 and 200 acres of land in land lot 73 in the 25th and contract for construction of a courthouse and other public buildings (Ga. Laws 1810, p. 40). The legislature also provided that until a courthouse was built, court sessions and county elections would be held at the house of John Harden (Ga. Laws 1810, p. 72). Twiggs County's first courthouse -- a two-story wooden building -- in 1812 on land lot 73, which was now known as Marion. When Jeffersonville became county seat in 1868, the old courthouse in Marion was dismantled and taken on a six-mile trip by wagon to the new county seat, where it was reassembled. It is not clear whether other courthouses succeeded the 1812 structure. In 1901, Twiggs County's courthouse was destroyed by fire. Construction of the present courthouse began in 1902 and was completed in 1904. The courthouse was renovated in 1979, followed by a major renovation and substantial expansion of the structure begun in 1996 and completed in 2003. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_twiggs-county-courthouse
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_twiggs-county-courthouse
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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